Susa: Museum Objects

Many objects from Susa
have found their
way to museums in Iran and Europe. The site itself has a nice little museum; other objects
can be found in the Louvre (Paris), the British Museum (London), and
the National Museum in Tehran. The first photo shows a clay
tablet with the text by Darius
I the Great that is known as DSe: a list of satrapies.
The full text and translation of this document can be found here. Below are some other objects from the museums already mentioned.

The best-known archaeological find from Susa is without any doubt the
diorite stela with the Laws of the Babylonian
king Hammurabi (1792-1750), which was taken away when the Elamites
looted
Babylon. The capital of the stela shows how Hammurabi prays to
Šamaš, the sun god. The laws are written underneath this picture.

The
significance of the regulations it is still unclear. In a society that
was overwhelmingly illiterate, people would never know their rights if
they depended upon a written text, and it is possible that the stela
was
in fact only meant to show to the eternal gods that the king was a just
man, or tried to be.